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How Trying to ‘Fix’ My Disability Made My Hands Worse

How Trying to ‘Fix’ My Disability Made My Hands Worse

July 22, 2023 Posted in In My Feelings122 Comments

A post explaining what happened when my doctors made my hands worse by straightening them in order to ‘fix’ them and why it was wrong.

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Asking the ‘BIG’ Disability Questions

Asking the ‘BIG’ Disability Questions

September 27, 2020July 27, 2021 Posted in Thinking out Loud19 Comments

Asking the ‘BIG’, uncomfortable disability questions that every disabled child thinks about but professionals and parents rarely have the answers to

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